Pamela Gay

Pamela Gay is an Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, State University of New York where she teaches flash memoir and flash fiction. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in creative nonfiction and a national e-book for digital storytelling. Her writing has been published in Brevity, Iowa Review, Paterson Literary Review, Grey Sparrow, Midway Journal, Talking Writing, Vestal Review, Phoebe, Other Voices, Monkeybicycle, Fringe, FragLit, Sleet, and other literary magazines as well as in two anthologies. She has recently completed a book-length memoir called I’m So Glad You’re Here.

Honorable Mention -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest Judged by Michael Martone Last night I heard the screaming, loud voices behind the wall. Another sleepless night for me. It won’t do no good to call. The police always come late if they come at all and when they arrive they say they can’t interfere with domestic affairs between… Read more →

My mother needed help getting out of the bathtub. I had never seen my mother’s body bare. I sometimes saw her in her white bra and white underpants, big white underpants spread to dry across the clothesline like a row of unfolded paper doll cutouts. She didn’t hide her body when I came to help her. Her stomach was crisscrossed… Read more →